Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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